Orli is a child-led programme that helps children feel emotionally regulated and ready to learn.
Short sensory and emotional regulation activities with a little round friend each child makes. Now in UK primary schools.
Orli for schools, parents and healthcare
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For Schools
Status: Live in primary schools
Whole-class sensory and emotional regulation for KS1 and KS2, in short, playful sessions.
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For Parents
Status: In the making
For everyday feelings at home. We’d like to design it with parents and carers.
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For Healthcare
Status: In the making
For children and families in hospital. We’re exploring it with partners.
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Orli Schools: regulated and ready to learn.
Orli Schools supports pupils’ wellbeing and social, emotional and mental health (SEMH). It isn’t therapy and doesn’t diagnose.
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Child-led
Each child makes their own Orli, chooses what to share and can always watch or pass. There’s no right answer.
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Sensory and emotional regulation
Squishy friends and short, playful activities help children wind down, warm up or pause to reflect.
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Data that helps
Orli Schools is data-driven. Older pupils can answer a short, optional survey, and leaders see how many sessions ran, how many children took part and for how long. How we look after pupils’ data.
What we’re working towards: pupils who feel ready to learn, and more time to teach.
We made Orlis of ourselves, too.
We’re doctors, psychologists, educators and parents, and we co‑create Orli with schools and the children in them. Orli means my light.
Questions grown‑ups ask
Can’t see yours? Email hello@orli.health.
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What is Orli?
Orli is a child-led programme that helps children feel emotionally regulated and ready to learn. Each child makes their own Orli, a little round friend, and uses it in short sensory and emotional regulation activities. It isn’t therapy. Orli is made by Orli Health Ltd, a UK company founded by an A&E doctor and a psychologist, and is in primary schools now as Orli Schools. We’re exploring Orli at home and Orli in healthcare.
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Is Orli therapy?
No. Orli Schools is a classroom tool for everyday feelings. It doesn’t diagnose or label children, and it doesn’t replace counselling, CAMHS or your safeguarding procedures. More on what Orli is not.
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Does AI talk to my children?
No. There’s no chatbot in Orli. Children follow the story on the class board, with their teacher leading.
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Which year groups is Orli Schools for?
Orli Schools is made for primary schools, for pupils in Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 (KS1 and KS2). It works in partnership with your school to help pupils feel emotionally regulated and ready to learn. The optional baseline survey is for older pupils.
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How does Orli fit with SEMH and wellbeing?
Orli Schools supports pupils’ wellbeing and social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) through sensory and emotional regulation, in everyday moments in class. It isn’t therapy and doesn’t diagnose: it sits alongside your specialist support and safeguarding.
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What about families and hospitals?
We’re exploring Orli at home with parents and carers, and Orli for children and families in hospital, with partners. To help shape either, get in touch about Orli at home or Orli in healthcare.
Ready when your class is.
Eight weeks of Orli Schools for your school, plus a free creator kit for five pupils. You just pay postage and packaging.